![]() ![]() But as attraction flares between them and ancient evils stir, will they be able to see their tasks to the death? ![]() ![]() When Malik rigs his way into the contest, they are set on a heart-pounding course to destroy each other. And she knows just how to obtain one: by offering her hand in marriage to the victor of the Solstasia competition. Grief-stricken, Karina decides to resurrect her mother through ancient magic.requiring the beating heart of a king. ![]() Her mother, the Sultana, has been assassinated her court threatens mutiny and Solstasia looms like a knife over her neck. But when a vengeful spirit abducts his younger sister, Nadia, as payment to enter the city, Malik strikes a fatal deal - kill Karina, Crown Princess of Ziran, for Nadia’s freedom.īut Karina has deadly aspirations of her own. This New York Times best seller is perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi, Renée Ahdieh, and Sabaa Tahir.įor Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life with his sisters in the prosperous desert city of Ziran. The first in a gripping fantasy duology inspired by West-African folklore in which a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves on a collision course to murder each other despite their growing attraction - from debut author Roseanne A. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Google drove into our neighborhoods with camera-equipped cars to capture images of our communities and create detailed maps that will be useful for routing their self-driving cars and even planning entire cities where everything will be connected and everyone’s life experience moment by moment can be rendered as data. That Fitbit your employer paid for? It feeds information to insurers that can use to change your behavior and reduce costs – or charge you more if you don’t comply. You’re not the product, you’re the site of raw material extraction, and that extraction isn’t just to sell ads, it’s to provide the means of control to anyone who will profit from it. ![]() The old saw about free platforms – if it’s free, you’re the product – isn’t quite true. The more engaged we are online, the more these companies know about us, and the more they know, the more they can sell predictions of our behavior for people who want to modify it. What started as search and social platforms without much of a business model were transformed by the accidental discovery that the data trails we leave behind whenever we go online – “behavioral surplus” – is extraordinarily valuable. It’s an impressive work that ties together a lot of trends into a very spooky picture of where we are headed when intimate data about each of us is used as the raw material for prediction and control. I have finally finished reading Shoshana Zuboff’s epic book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe it’s time to start believing in some things, after all.Ĭasey McQuiston’s One Last Stop is a magical, sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time. She’s literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. August’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane doesn’t just look like an old school punk rocker. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August’s day when she needed it most. Martins Griffin Date JFiction LGBTQ Stories Romance Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August’s day when she needed it most. One Last Stop Casey McQuiston Buy Now Indiebound Publisher St. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.īut then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train. She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. Anew romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks.įor cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had to wonder if she’d taken this much care on the outside, what was she wearing beneath? Lavender lace would look gorgeous on her. It was totally unnecessary, of course, but I wouldn’t mind it if she was thinking about me when she dressed this morning. Was it for me? I sure as fuck hoped it was. She wore a pretty plum shade of lipstick on her pillowy lips and mascara today. ![]() Little pearl snaps drew my eye to the swell of her breasts. “Excuse me?” The crisp white blouse from the day before was replaced with a plaid button-up. Seraphina nickered, as if she found me amusing. “Actually, I’m here to offer you something.” I tipped my hat. I’ll prove she doesn’t know everything about four-legged beasts.Įspecially not the fiercest ones who stalk their prey in the night.Įspecially not one determined to prey on her.Ĭatch Up On the Series: Rough Wild Feral Savage Two weeks where I’ll show her a large animal. I might not have the wolf scent, but I have the hearing. She’s sent a human vet to stay in the bunkhouse. Today we have the release day blitz for Renee Rose and Vanessa Vale’s FIERCE! Check it out and be sure to grab your copy today! Title: Fierce (Wolf Ranch #5) Author: Renee Rose & Vanessa Vale Genre: Paranormal Romance About Fierce (Wolf Ranch #5) ![]() ![]() ![]() If you like reading chilling suspenseful thrillers that draw in you page after page I definitely recommend picking up this book. You never know what goes on behind closed doors. What seemingly looks like the perfect life, the perfect marriage is actually something that is dark & sinister once you get a deeper look in to their lives. ![]() This is definitely a page turner that keeps you wanting to know more while keeping you on the edge of your seat. The storyline is intriguing and suspenseful. The characters of Jack, Grace and Millie are captivating and immediately draw you in. They live in a beautiful home, his law career is thriving, she hosts elegant dinner parties and is a loving & supportive wife and sister. He is a attractive lawyer, she is his beautiful & charming stay-at-home wife who also is a caregiver to her special needs sister Millie. Jack and Grace seem like the ideal couple. A suspenseful thriller that keeps you wanting more ![]() ![]() ![]() The tower in Pavia where he was imprisoned is still venerated.īoethius was author of Latin translations of Aristotle, commentaries on various philosophical works, original works on logic, five books on music, and other works. Pietro in Ciel d’Oro, and later to the Cathedral. Boethius was revered as if he were a saint and his bones were removed in 996 to the Church of S. He was put to death in 524, to the great remorse of Theodoric. ![]() All three men rose to high honours under Theodoric the Ostrogoth, but Boethius fell from favour, was tried for treason, wrongly condemned, and imprisoned at Ticinum (Pavia), where he wrote his renowned The Consolation of Philosophy. He married Symmachus’s daughter, Rusticiana, by whom he had two sons. 480–524 CE), was son of Flavius Manlius Boetius, after whose death he was looked after by several men, especially Memmius Symmachus. ![]() Now with enhanced navigation »īoethius (Boetius)-Anicius Manlius Severinus-Roman statesman and philosopher (ca. The digital Loeb Classical Library extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. ![]() ![]() When their reluctant partnership blooms into a tenuous romance, they must overcome their own dark secrets in hopes of a future together that seemed impossible just days before. With no other choices and on the run from Keralie’s former employer, the two decide to join forces, endeavoring to discover who has killed the queens and save their own lives in the process. When Varin attempts to retrieve the package, he and Keralie both find themselves entangled in a conspiracy that leaves all four of Quadara’s queens dead. He runs afoul of Keralie when she steals a package from him, putting his life in danger. Varin, on the other hand, is an honest, upstanding citizen of Quadara’s most enlightened region, Eonia. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Keralie Corrington may seem harmless, but she’s, in fact, one of Quadara’s most skilled thieves and a liar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Town by town, bite by bite, author Matt Goulding brings Italy to life through intimate portraits of its food culture and the people pushing it in new directions: Three globe-trotting brothers who became the mozzarella kings of Puglia the pizza police of Naples and the innovative pies that stay one step ahead of the rules the Barolo Boys who turned the hilly Piedmont into one of the world’s great wine regions. Pasta, Pane, Vino is the latest edition of the genre-bending Roads & Kingdoms style pioneered under Anthony Bourdain’s imprint in Rice, Noodle, Fish ( 2016 Travel Book of the Year, Society of American Travel Writers ) and Grape, Olive, Pig ( 2017 IACP Award, Literary Food Writing). ![]() This is not a cookbook. This is something more: a travelogue, a patient investigation of Italy’s cuisine, a loving profile of the everyday heroes who bring Italy to the table. ![]() "Goulding is pioneering a new type of writing about food." -Financial Times ![]() Matt Goulding expertly navigates it’s wonders and eccentricities with wisdom and great passion.” -Anthony Bourdain “Italy is a beautiful but complicated place, not so much a country as a collection of cultures and cuisines. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Whenever you make a key decision or take a key action, write down what you expect will happen. “The only way to discover your strengths is through feedback analysis. So he suggests constantly giving yourself feedback on how you’re doing: ![]() We’re much better at knowing what we’re not good at. But, we’re all bad at evaluating our strengths. Trying to fix all of your weaknesses will be a waste of time. This book provides strategies to be a better self-manager, just as “The Effective Executive” helps with managing others.ĭrucker points out that we all have different strengths and weaknesses, and that it only makes sense to focus on growing and cultivating your strengths. But we never learn this skill in school, and it’s something we need to cultivate on our own. Great achievers manage themselves, they do not require being constantly managed by others. ![]() ![]() Vespertine’s eventual revelations about the nature of the Spill harden Addie’s resolve to get out…but also make the situation so much more complex. Of course, the American government has their eyes on the situation too. However, Lexa’s possessed rag doll, Vespertine, has other ideas for the family, and the North Koreans-who had a similar incident-have sent their Spill survivor, a youth named Don Jae, to investigate conditions in Poughkeepsie. Addie has made ends meet by selling photographs of the bizarre conditions inside the Zone, and she possesses growing paranormal abilities thanks to a very close encounter with “the dust.” Now that she’s sold an artifact from the Zone for $1 million, she can leave. ![]() When the Spill occurred three years ago, Addie and Lexa’s parents became two of the thousands of floating corpses in the wasteland that was Poughkeepsie, New York. ![]() Addie has finally made her big score: Does that mean she and her little sister can escape the Spill Zone? ![]() |